Practices and Subjective Meanings of the Use of Drugs in the Modern Subcultures on the Example of Psychonauts

Student: Kazakov Oleg

Educational Programme: Sociology of Public Sphere and Social Communications (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

In this article, an attempt has been made to investigate one of the most interesting "newest" subcultures - psychonauts - people who use psychoactive drugs for self-knowledge. The author of the research, was based on 8 interviews and 16 hours of included observation, and he describes a closed subcultural group and shared his thoughts about what is happening in the format of the 'ethnographic reading'. The work provides a review of modern and classical theories of subcultures, explores different scince views on the phenomena of practices and subjective meanings in sociological science.

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